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by nobodyandproud 159 days ago
Windows Vista isn't Windows NT 3.x. In the internal versioning, it's not even 4.0.
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pjmlp 159 days ago
Indeed, it is something better, Windows NT 6.0.

And it is irrelevant anyway, given that this comment was written from 10.0.26100.

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nobodyandproud 159 days ago
Oh, I see.

You’re saying they improved the design. I know they added user-privilege device driver support for USB (etc).; did they revert the display compromise/mess as well?

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pjmlp 158 days ago
Yes, now graphics drivers are mostly in userspace, with only a tiny driver in kernel space, miniport.

Hence why graphics usually no longer crash Windows, after a small black screen pause, everything continues as usual.

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/d...

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